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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.

Joseph Conrad

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Luxury Necessary Protection
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Earth Light Live Old Run
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Brutal Force Strength Weakness Yourself
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing

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